Sunday, June 15, 2014

I wrote a blog post about the Monarch butterfly recently. I ordered 4000 seeds, I kept them in the fridge for thirty days in ground quartz and water, planted 2500, in four different gardens. Not a one sprouted. But the other 1500 in the fridge started sprouting when I took the container out.

So I weeded after a day of good rain, and a new friend and I are going set the seed. Other milkweed seed sprouted, from previous summers. This afternoon, weeding, I found a monarch caterpillar. I've never seen one here. I dare not touch it, these fingers are not so soft. It has been eating this young, flattened common milkweed. There is a budding forest behind it, behind my clementine. I've only seen maybe three monarch butterfly here this season.

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Nothing is more astonishing to me about
the culture I inhabit, than the divide between the left and the
right. I feel it even in my body, imbalance, as if the two sides are
not fully in synch. In the macrocosm, indeed, the Left and Right in America
seem ready to go to war against each other. Everywhere it seems, the
destruction, the disintegration of families. Community? Long ago
impaled on the lance of eternal warfare. Men/Women? Hyper-individualised, we are
cast out into the abyss - go forth and hustle for the dollar, for
ideology. Left and Right opposed, as if a Republic could exist one
without the other. Republic? NSA say what? Bill of Rights? LOL.

What fertile grounds for the plunder of
the treasury! Hardly anyone even trusts their mother anymore.

Will you hang me if I express sympathy
with Bowe Bergdahl and his father? The State supports what now? Yes,
it supports the autistic guys I work for. It also supports drone
bombings, indefinite detention, total police-state/surveillance. We
seem to want to make the world safe for banks and corporations, and
their henchmen. And we condemn the Bergdahls for what, not being
commercial enough? Not being profligate? Not supporting empire America? Do you suppose Bowe
sympathized with those Islamists? A thoughtful man might even begin
to sympathize with bankers, if he was captive in their presence long
enough. Except, in my captivity, bankers are as physically
distant from me as gods. Which, Bankers or Islamists, which is more
eager/sly to enslave you? One does it with debt, the other with dogma.
Banker have dogma too, dog.

Which America's wars are about what,
now? Bowe Bergdahl is a divide and conquer strategy by the elite,
too, what with Americans slashing at each other's throats, and not
hearing each other talk about the historic bonds newly created
between China and Russia. Why? I'm remembering 9/11; it seems the
American people can only ever come together to agree on anything,
when it involves going to war under false pretences; soon it will be
righteous for me to kill Islamists, Chinese and Russians, in service
to dollar hegemony and multinational Banks and Corporations –
except the banks and corporations and dollar hegemony can't be
mentioned – because it's about freedom. For sure.

Freedom to shop, apparently. For trash
that turns quickly into garbage, mostly. I forget that the American
people agree, left and right, that there is no limit to conspicuous
consumption. We love the banks and corporations, for the largess they
provide; but it is being taken away and we are being marshaled like
in the trance of a death cult, raging, left against the right, right
against left, while the architects relax, in leisure, content. Divide
and conquer.

What better do I have to offer, though,
than the bankers and corporations, Government? How do I unite the
left and the right, in service to what? In the microcosm, first.
Which integration, unification, balance, alignment, empowering, is
precisely what the divide and conquer strategist abhors most. The
last thing the great centralizers want is a unified, empowered
people, except in service to war, and debt. In service to the earth?
To community? Where are the warriors for the earth, air and the
waters, the warriors of fire? The stuff of the body of the earth;
divide and conquer, divide the people from the earth, from the body
of the earth, and despoil both: rule. Without question.

Question. Or rather, a riddle: what is
the solution to resource constraints, if you own the currency, but
hardly anybody knows who you are?